The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, Revised EditionNational Academies Press, 1997 M10 14 - 256 pages Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions:
The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics. |
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... Practitioner of Internal Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia RUTH E. GARRY, Senior Manager, Group Benefits Services Division, CNA Insurance Companies, Chicago, Illinois THOMAS Q. MORRIS, Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and ...
... practitioners whenever they need it, particularly at the time they are making care decisions. Further, the evolution of health care delivery organizations into integrated delivery systems means that those organizations need a way of ...
... practitioners across all provider settings as recommended in the original report, we will continue to lack the tools needed to manage the quality and costs of health care, the scientific basis for health care will continue to be ...
... practitioners; health care managers; medical record professionals; health services researchers; medical informatics researchers; computer vendors; third-party payers; the legal community; federal, state, and local health care agencies ...
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